This was in the summer between 5th and 6th grade. Before this I had been on a '50's kick, but "Mr. Roboto" was in heavy rotation on the two rock radio-stations in town (WFMF 102.5 & WAFB 98.1 [now WTGE]), and I decided I liked it.

Styx's 13th album, Kilroy Was Here is a concept album telling the epic tale of Good vs. Evil, in the forms of Robert Orin Charles Kilroy, a mega-rock-star, and Dr. Everett Righteous, a Televanglist and powerful political figure. It came after 'Paradise Theater', which some group claimed contained back-masked messages [it did not]. The story of 'Kilroy Was Here' is obviously inspired by these events; the shrink-wrap for the album carried a 'warning sticker' stating that it contains secret messages from the 'Majority for Musical Morality'.

The song 'Heavy Metal Poisoning', sung by 'Dr. Righteous', opens with a garbled bit which, if played backwards, is a low, gravelly voice saying "Annuit Coeptus Novus Ordo Seclorum" [this is the Latin phrase encircling the pyramid / All-Seeing Eye on the back of the US $1 bill].

Prologue

Mr. Roboto
Cold War
Don't Let It End
High Time

Heavy Metal Poisoning
Just Get Through This Night
Double Life
Haven't We Been Here Before
Don't Let It End (reprise)

Credits